How Do We Track Photons Through Space?

“When a particle moves through spacetime, how do we know it is the same particle and not some excitation that is passed from place to place?”

We don’t! This is a really interesting feature of our universe, and it comes from the observation that all subatomic particles are described by a few key properties, but are otherwise completely and utterly…

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